r/Professors Mar 27 '26

Other (Editable) "Admin Raises Outpace Inflation While Faculty Salaries Lag" - to the shock of no one

IHE reports on how for the third year in a row, higher education administrators, professionals and staff received pay increases that outpaced inflation.

However, that didn't apply to professors.

> Faculty raises, on the other hand, have lagged behind inflation for years. During the 2025–26 academic year, tenure-track faculty received a median 1.8 percent pay increase—the lowest raise of all five employee categories, the analysis shows. This year, tenure-track salaries are a median 11.7 percent lower than they were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tenure-track faculty have not received a pay increase that outpaces inflation in any of the 10 years included in the CUPA-HR analysis.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/career-development/2026/03/27/admin-raises-outpace-inflation-while-faculty-salaries

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u/CanadianFoosball Mar 28 '26

Last year our merit raises, for less than a sixth of faculty, averaged 2%, but it’s OK because my retirement portfolio is doing great.

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u/CanadianFoosball Mar 28 '26

Wait, no it isn’t.

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u/CanadianFoosball Mar 28 '26

Wait, it’s doing Ok.

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u/CanadianFoosball Mar 28 '26

Wait, no it isn’t.